Alastair Humphreys Quotes
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Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.
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I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.
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Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.
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Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
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I'm a country girl. The more big cities I go to, the more fashionistas and designers I meet who want to dress me, the more I have all these kind of superficial but amazing experiences, the more I just realize that I'm from Gloucestershire.
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I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.
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I believe that when Crazy Horse was killed, something more than a man's life was snuffed out.
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Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.
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This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.
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Suchness is neither that which is existence, nor that which is nonexistence, nor that which is at once existence and nonexistence, nor that which is not at once existence and nonexistence.
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See the opportunities for adventures, not the constraints that get in the way.
